Oldboy

Original title: Oldeuboi

2003
R
2h

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

658K

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POPULARITY

339

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.

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After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.

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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

658K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

339

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated movie #76

Awards
- 40 wins & 28 nominations

No Joo-hwan
(as Dae-han Ji)

Oh Dal-su

Park Cheol-woong
(as Dal-su Oh)

Seung-shin Lee

Yoo Hyung-ja
(as Seung-Shin Lee)

Yoon Jin-seo

Lee Soo-ah

Oh Tae-kyung

Young Dae-su
(as Tae-kyung Oh)

Yoo Yeon-seok

Young Woo-Jin
(as Ahn Yeon-Seok)

Il-han Oo

Young Joo-hwan

Lee Young-hee

Clock Store Lady

Kim Young Ae

Elevator Lady
(as Kim Yeong-ae)

Mi Mi Lee

Dental Nurse

Jae-Duk Han

Night Teacher

Jung Ae Kwak

Nun Teacher

San Kim

Electronics Store Owner

Chae-soo Jang

Woo-jin's Doctor

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Storyline

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Trivia
Choi Min-sik trained for six weeks and lost twenty pounds to get in shape for the role of Dae-su, and did most of his own stunt work.

Goofs
(at around 1h 7 mins) When Mi-do is searching through the Internet for the word "Evergreen", you can see that the high school website already has been visited on that computer because the link is highlighted in purple colors.

Quotes
Woo-jin Lee: Remember this: "Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same."

Alternate versions
Park Chan-wook stated on his solo DVD commentary that there is an edited version for television broadcast. It omits some of the more extreme violence and the love scene between Oh Dae Su and Mi-do.

Connections
Edited into 365 Days, also Known as a Year (2019)

Soundtracks
Bring My Love
by Starsailor

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Review

Featured review

9/10

Freaked me out

I haven't written a comment on IMDb for about 3 years but was inspired to with this film. It is not very often that I come across a film by accident (World Movies on cable) and the spend the next day scouring the internet to find out information about it and can't get it out of my head! Anyway, yep there are plot holes, but Old boy borrows a lot from surrealism and you are meant to suspend your disbelief! I don't buy comments when people say "it is so unrealistic because he should've done this ..." because it is a surrealist film and meant to be unrealistic! For me the sign of a good film is if it sticks on your head! THis one surely does (althought I did have to look away a few times ... ) Loved it!!!! Work of cruel genius!!! (HOLLYWOOD - Please don't ruin it by remaking it!!!)